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PHP|Architect's Guide to PHP Design Patterns

Format: Paperback
Author: Jason E. Sweat
ReleaseDate: July, 2005
Publisher: Marco Tabini & Associates, Inc.
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PHP, Design Patterns, OOP (great book)
There is a huge variety of patterns explained in this book, which helped me a lot. A great book for design patterns comprehension in PHP. It also provides a very well written text with an easy comprehension, even for beginners in design patterns area.

Book review
Content is somewhat usefull, but related to much to testing patterns. This book provides an quick insight of current OO patterns. It's good for a beginner programmer who want to start a project using OO.

The quality of the paper and ink is like a home made printed book. The price is too high for that quality.

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This book is not about Design Patterns
The link in the book referencing this library (called simpletest) doesn't even take you to a download page for this library (I had to find it) and the methods in the library are not explained which is a prerequisite to understanding the implementation of the design patterns. From the offset, you are informed that this entire book is based on a test-writing then code-developing method of development that requires the implementation of an outside library of code. Wait. . . I didn't buy this book to learn about "simpletest", I bought this book to learn about design patterns. The misguided attempt of the author to railroad you into his method of coding results in the complete obscurification of the design patterns which are a heady enough subject. What a blunder.